I didnt really get emo years or anything even close to Strangeluv's stories but here's the gist of my teen ages:
Back in elementary school I was the fat kid people laughed at because I couldn't get good Phys Ed grades and was always way behind when we ran around the school yard. Phys Ed teacher laughed of me in front of everyone once, which was prolly like the worst day of my life back then. It like, gave all the students the signal that laughing of me was okay, and from this day on I was picked on in every single day of elementary school. Nice work, asshole! That little silly action for him, laughing of the fat kid, is pretty much what caused me to be an awkward social retard for most of my teenage.
In high school at first I was in a private high school where everyone was sort of weird, I was still pretty introverted because I could never make friends at school before. My marks went slowly down and down, and I ended up being kicked out of private school and into public school, and I am very thankful of that today. When in public school, for a reason that completely eludes me, even though I still was very introverted and awkward, I made lots of friends. Maybe I just wasn't as awkward anymore or something, or maybe the people were more mature? That was in like 3rd grade high school. I hanged out with like, people that looked like big tall adults when compared to the tiny other students around them. They listened to metttaalll and had big scary dark clothing and studded bracelets, and were pretty much the people mmmmy parents wwwarned me against... the bad crowd... violent people... When you come from a private school with an imposed dark blue uniform and white bars over windows and religious teachers, thats pretty scary! They listened to loud metal and rock n roll and whatnot, like Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. These guys were like ssssuper extraverted and loud. But yeah for some reason we were friends, and they were prolly the nicest people I ever met back then.
Then I made more friends, like "drug buddies". Which was odd, because I never did drugs in my entire life, even up to today. I was always the odd one out with them, the awkward nerd in a big group of cool people who smmmoke pot and have parties. They weren't with me like ironically or anything, it was pretty strange! I didn't really have fun at their "parties" though because all they did there was g-gget stoned while listening to music in a large group. I was the one dude in the place that didn't take anything, so it made me feel like, what the hell am I doing here? But I really enjoyed being in a large group of people for once. I became gradually more sociable there, and by the time I changed schools again (The public high school I went to only had grades 1 to 3, I had to switch schools again) I was more of a normal person with n-n-normal friends and hobbies and whatnot.
When I changed high schools again is also the very first time I talked to black people. No kidding. During my whole childhood I lived in uniformly white suburbs, and my only sample of people of any other race was the weird Vietnamese drugstore owner who let underage kids get beer, and black people as seen on TV.... in my mind, black people were like, the bad crowd. Members of street gangs... they take druges... they're in poor families... they're violent... aggressive... It was my first impression when I saw someone with darker skin. Luckily, as this new school was full of people of all races, these ideas disappeared over time. I think they had their biggest blow when I went to these LARPS when I was around 16, and there were black people there. Before that I thought, whaat, don't black people just listen to hip hop and get blazed??! whats happening. And I realized some..some of them even played video games... . And poof... once again, video games is what broke all boundaries... (I am serious this is what removed all of my racist ideas definitely)
I discovered rpgmaker and joined GW around the time when I first entered public school. I was still very socially awkward back then but my English was so bad that you guys prolly couldn't tell what parts of my weirdness were because of FOREIGN LANGUAGE and what parts where SOCIAL AWKWARDNESS.